A Sea of Troubles Meets the Trees Themselves: an installation of mixed media and mixed metaphor was installed at Joseph Gaz­zuolo Art Gallery, North Hen­nepin Com­mu­nity Col­lege and SOO Visual Art Center.

About

Melissa Bor­man is a Minneapolis-based instal­la­tion artist and pho­tog­ra­pher with a back­ground in film the­ory. She uses sym­bol­i­cally and his­tor­i­cally potent words, imagery and objects to exam­ine tra­di­tional and con­tem­po­rary sys­tems of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, the dis­tri­b­u­tion of infor­ma­tion and notions of truth. She is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in the how var­i­ous modes of relay­ing infor­ma­tion impact our col­lec­tive cul­tural under­stand­ing of the nat­ural world and how we expe­ri­ence land­scape. At the root her work is the co-constitutive rela­tion­ship of the use of ele­ments of the nat­ural world as metaphors in the depic­tion of human sto­ries and how these depic­tions then shape our ideas of the nat­ural world.